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justify his attacking these sciences at th* 5rate; or rather no merit possible can warr& ntit. And it must give us but a bad opio l0 °of the notions that necessitate a man to^ e 'clare himself thus. What necessity they ^him under, we shall see instantly. In22. he expresses himself after the follovvi°$

manner.—-“ It is but looking into 'j 0 ^

cc own thoughts, and so trying whether y olJ“ can conceive it possible for a found, ° r“ figure, or a motion, or a colour (p)>

{C exist without the mind. or unpercest e

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that what you contend for is a downfifr

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{p) D. B. hath perplexed himself about thequalities of bodies; and insists much upon it as a ^rnonstration of the non-existence of matter,these qualities cannot exist without the mind. S utmight have observed that heat , for instance, is an ^vocal word-, and may either stand for the sensationcited in the mind, or the quality in external bo<b^raising that sensation. It is very trifling, becausefirs cannot exist without the mind, to infer th* 1hst cannot; to conclude, that because sensation lS .in the fire, there is no quality in it to raise sensi lti0ll ^ya sensitive Being. Here figure and motion are stlC ^shuffled in with colour and sound-, though they a T £ ^Jitjes of a different kind.

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